Kodoani.com – A website was opened on Sunday to announce a stage play based on the yuri manga “Whisper Me a Love Song” (Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau or softly singing love songs) by Eku Takeshima, titled “Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau” (Whisper Me a Love Song the Stage), will run from July 26 to August 2 at Theater1010 in Tokyo. The website also revealed the play's cast, staff, and key visuals.
The stage cast includes:
Yui Watanabe as Himari Kino
Momoka Ishii as Yori Asanagi
Yūki Tenma as Miki Mizuguchi
Nagisa Hayakawa as Mari Tsutsui
Nanase Kayama as Tachibana Kaori
Chiyuri Itō as Shiho Izumi
Shiori Nishikado as Momoka Satomiya
Kaede Sakuragi as Hajime Amasawa
Actors will sing and play live instruments for stage performance scenes.
Publisher Kodansha USA is releasing the original manga digitally and in English, describing the first compiled book volume as follows:
Himari, a bubbly and energetic first-year high school student, falls in love with senpai Yori after hearing her band perform on the first day of school. Himari tells Yori that she fell in love at first sight, and to Himari's surprise, Yori says that she loves Himari too! But when Himari realizes that she and her senpai have two different kinds of love, she begins to wonder what “love” really means…
Takeshima launched the manga in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime magazine in 2019. Ichijinsha published the manga's ninth compiled book volume on March 18.
The manga adaptation of the anime premiered on April 13 on TV Asahi's NUMAnimation channel after a delay.